>>>>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 01:21:22 -0500, Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: IM> Talking about licenses: is it really good idea to use GPL in P5EE? IM> Why not Artistic (like Perl itself) or at least LGPL? GPL is hardly IM> acceptable if P5EE is supposed to be used in commercial projects.
IM> If I understand licensing correctly if any core P5EE library is GPL it IM> forces GPL for any application built upon P5EE. Uri> the GPL does not force anything to be GPL if it uses GPL. it just forces Uri> releasing the source for free if it uses GPL code. you can always sell Uri> the system as long as it comes with (or the customer can get) the Uri> source. >From http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html Q: If a library is released under the GPL (not the LGPL), does that mean that any program which uses it has to be under the GPL? A: Yes, because the program as it is actually run includes the library. This is what I meant when I said 'forces GPL'. Anyway I don't mind GPL in general. It has its place in this world. My point was that inclusion of even one GPL library in P5EE core automatically imposes some serious restrictions on applications that use P5EE. So we should decide if it is acceptable to have these restriction in P5EE? *Something* should be decided about licensing policy for P5EE. My IMHO is that there is no place for GPL in P5EE core. I hope RMS would agree with me :) Here the quote from http://www.fsf.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html Using the ordinary GPL is not advantageous for every library. There are reasons that can make it better to use the Library GPL in certain cases. The most common case is when a free library's features are readily available for proprietary software through other alternative libraries. In that case, the library cannot give free software any particular advantage, so it is better to use the Library GPL for that library. I fill that P5EE is that case. J5EE already exist. Making P5EE GPL does not makes any good for its adoption. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/) TIV.net (http://tiv.net/) | | GnuPG 1024D/323BDEE6 D7F7 561E 4C1D 8A15 8E80 E4AE BE1A 53EB 323B DEE6 | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
